4-Social-Studies-March

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Grade: Fourth

Month: March

Main Concept

  1. Industrial Growth and Expansion
  2. Urbanization: Economic, Political, and Social Impacts





Guiding Questions





Theme/Content Skills

  • Technology
  • Change
  • Human Systems
  • Environment and Society
  1. Industrial Growth and Expansion
  • Transportation, inventions, communication, and technology (e.g., 1800s - Erie Canal, railroads, steamboats, turnpikes, telegraph, cable; 1900s - automobiles, subways, air travel, seaways, telephones, radios and televisions, computer)
  • Immigration and Migration (e.g., Ellis Island; the mass starvation in Ireland, 1845-50; forced relocation of Native American Indians in New York State)
  • The important contributions of immigrants to New York State
  • Geographic influences of industrialization and expansion (e.g., natural resources, location); the interactions between geographic factors

2. Urbanization: economic, political, and social impacts
  • Rural to urban to suburban migration
  • Economic interdependence (e.g., resource use; from farm to market)
  • Ways of learning and public education in our community and State
  • The labor movement and child labor






Key Terms

  • Erie Canal
  • immigrant
  • immigration
  • migration
  • Ellis Island
  • rural
  • urban
  • suburban





Holidays

  • St. Patrick's Day



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Field Trip Suggestions

  • Ellis Island
  • New York Transit Museum